Word: foule
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the second half, however, George Lowman led a strong comeback for the visitors. Finishing strong, he netted four field goals and two foul shots to bring his total to ten. Vernon Struck at right guard, was second high scorer for the Crimson with three baskets to his credit. The summary: COLUMBIA HARVARD Robinson, r.f. l.f. Lowman, White Wolff, l.f. r.f., McGowan, Kuhn Casey, c. c. Gray O'Brien, r.g. l.g., Dampeer Nash, G'z'mler, l.g. r.g., Struck...
Richard Loeb died after being slashed 56 times with a razor by another convict in a prison washroom at the Illinois Penitentiary at Stateville. Held for murder, Prisoner James Day, a bantamweight larcenist of 23, swore he had killed in self-defense, told as foul a tale as has ever come over prison walls. He said that Loeb was an autocrat behind bars. As head of the prison school, he could parcel out soft jobs to fellow inmates. He ate in his cell and, by transferring sums from their well-stocked bank accounts, he and Leopold could get guards...
...newly restored King George II that His Majesty's embittered opponent, the deposed Dictator of Greece, Field Marshal George Kondylis, had just died with extreme suddenness "of a heart attack." In Greece it was inevitable that a death so convenient should seem, ipso facto, another case of foul play. The Field Marshal was a ruthless man with many ruthless enemies...
...Hawaiian Islands to send him to a leper colony 50 miles away, the name of Molokai meant nothing to the outside world. Molokai is an island to which the Hawaiian Government had exiled all its lepers after a frightful outbreak of the disease, a lawless chaos whose 800 foul inhabitants lived a slow death in huts, with only one another's company and the sweet intoxicating juice of the ki tree for distraction. Father Damien changed that, and in so doing made himself and Molokai famed...
...remember. The assault will be financed with the largest slush fund on record, contributed for the most part by those who have neither public conscience nor private scruple, who are only interested in getting back inordinate privileges." Chairman Farley braced himself for Republican "perversion of the facts," "outright lies." "foul whisperings." "We must work." continued Boss Farley, "for a victory so overwhelming as to make it plain forever that democracy is the faith of our people and that loyalty to a great President cannot be broken down even by a flood of money...